Special Expressions
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Special Expressions
I have decided to call this next section "Special Expressions" only because with the exception of the first few lessons, most of the grammar here applies to more specific areas than the grammar we have covered so far. These special expressions, while individually not vital, are, as a collection, necessary for regular everyday conversations. We are slowly entering the stage where we've built the toolbox and we now need to acquire the little tools that will make the toolbox complete. Now that we covered most of the base, it is time to look at all the little itty gritty bits. You are welcome to skip around the lessons, however; the examples will assume that you have gone over all previous sections.
Lessons covered in this section
- Causative and Passive Verbs - The last major type of verb conjugation, we'll learn how to create passive, causative, and the common causative-passive combination.
- Honorific and Humble Forms - Learn even politer expressions with honorific and humble forms.
- Things that happen unintentionally - Learn how to express things that happen by accident.
- Special expressions with generic nouns - Some special expressions using 「こと」 and 「ところ」.
- Expressing various levels of certainty - Various ways to express different levels of certainty.
- Expressing amounts - Different ways to express amounts.
- Various ways to express similarity and hearsay - Various ways to express things that you heard.
- Using 方 and よる for comparisons and other functions - Various ways to use 「方」 and 「よる」 especially for comparisons.
- Saying something is easy or difficult to do - Useful ways to conjugate verbs to mean that it's easy or hard to do.
- More negative verbs - Some less common but nonetheless useful negative forms of verbs.
- Hypothesizing and Concluding - Express hypothetical situations and reach conclusions based on certain data.
- Expressing time-specific actions - Various grammar that describes the time-frame or rate of frequency of verbs.
- Leaving something the way it is - How to express not making changes to a state.
